...In Japan, the company is officially registered under the name Universal Pictures. It was established in 1912 by merging several smaller companies with the Independent Motion Pictures Company (IMP), which was established in 1909 by Carl Laemmle (1867-1939), one of the pioneers of American film. Laemmle, who started out as a movie theater manager, believed that the commercial foundation of film was the fame of the actors, and he recruited actress Florence Lawrence (1886-1938), known as the "Biograph Girl," from Biograph, with a contract for an unprecedented salary of $1,000 a week at the time, and used her name in the title of the first film, laying the foundation for the "star system" in Hollywood. *Some of the terminology that mentions "Laemmle, C." is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…なお,日本で正式にはユニヴァーサル映画の名で登録されている。アメリカ映画のパイオニアの一人として知られるカール・レムリCarl Laemmle(1867‐1939)が1909年に設立したインデペンデント・モーション・ピクチャーズ・カンパニー(IMP)を基礎に,いくつかの群小会社を合併して12年に設立された。映画館の経営から出発したレムリは,映画の商業的基盤は俳優の名声にあると考え,〈バイオグラフ・ガール〉として知られていたバイオグラフ社所属の女優フローレンス・ローレンスFlorence Lawrence(1886‐1938)を,当時にしては破格の週給1000ドルという契約で引き抜き,その名まえを初めて映画のタイトルにかかげて,ハリウッドにおける〈スター・システム〉の基礎を築いた。… ※「Laemmle,C.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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